{"id":1514,"date":"2007-02-06T19:10:39","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T23:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2013-01-21T15:27:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:27:30","slug":"if-only-margaret-wente-could-have-watched-these-in-her-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/02\/06\/if-only-margaret-wente-could-have-watched-these-in-her-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"If only Margaret Wente could have watched these in her youth&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WkPh8As-y6E\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WkPh8As-y6E\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>We may <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WkPh8As-y6E\">have discovered<\/a> where the inclination to spend an entire Sunday at <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=1511\">TTC Camp<\/a> comes from: the public transportation propaganda put out in 1970s by the Jim Henson Hippies at the Children&#8217;s Television Workshop. The seed was planted with a magnum opus like this one above &#8212; it&#8217;s everything I hoped the big city would be (the TTC has delivered on occasional late nights, complete with chorus) and probably why I wished, as a child, I lived in a city with a subway. This one is also a fairly honest (as honest as Muppets can be) version of the subway, mentioning some of the unpleasant moments down below.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/C5POjxHz2wQ\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/C5POjxHz2wQ\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Here, Grover learns <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=C5POjxHz2wQ\">about the bus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve repeated her words here a few times, but what <em>Spacing<\/em> associate editor Anna Bowness says is so true, especially after seeing these clips:  &#8220;Sesame Street taught us everything we need to know about urbanism.&#8221; Indoctrinated us, really.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-McyeZ2kTy8\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-McyeZ2kTy8\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And another public chorus, this time <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-McyeZ2kTy8&#038;mode=related&#038;search=\">for the bus<\/a>. I wonder if <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=108\">Margaret Wente<\/a> would let children watch this sort of thing today? They might start to think that they don&#8217;t have to be poor to ride public transportation.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Thanks to ganjavih at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbantoronto.ca\/\">Urban Toronto<\/a> for the first subway link)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We may have discovered where the inclination to spend an entire Sunday at TTC Camp comes from: the public transportation propaganda put out in 1970s by the Jim Henson Hippies at the Children&#8217;s Television Workshop. The seed was planted with a magnum opus like this one above &#8212; it&#8217;s everything I hoped the big city<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/02\/06\/if-only-margaret-wente-could-have-watched-these-in-her-youth\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;If only Margaret Wente could have watched these in her youth&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[2161,422,512,857,4547,19,4515,30],"class_list":["post-1514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-transit","tag-anna-bowness","tag-associate-editor","tag-margaret-wente","tag-public-transportation","tag-public-transportation-propaganda","tag-toronto","tag-ttc-camp","tag-video"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>If only Margaret Wente could have watched these in her youth... - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/02\/06\/if-only-margaret-wente-could-have-watched-these-in-her-youth\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"If only Margaret Wente could have watched these in her youth... - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We may have discovered where the inclination to spend an entire Sunday at TTC Camp comes from: the public transportation propaganda put out in 1970s by the Jim Henson Hippies at the Children&#8217;s Television Workshop. 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